Mark Twain Quotes, Men Quotes, Years Quotes

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one.

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As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.

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Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person.

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The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

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I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

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Geological time is not money.

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